A young girl risks everything to prevent a powerful, multinational company from kidnapping her best friend - a fascinating beast named Okja.
For 10 idyllic years, young Mija (An Seo Hyun) has been caretaker and constant companion to Okja-a massive animal and an even bigger friend-at her home in the mountains of South Korea. But that changes when a family-owned multinational conglomerate Mirando Corporation takes Okja for themselves and transports her to New York, where image obsessed and self-promoting CEO Lucy Mirando (Tilda Swinton) has big plans for Mija's dearest friend. With no particular plan but single-minded in intent, Mija sets out on a rescue mission, but her already daunting journey quickly becomes more complicated when she crosses paths with disparate groups of capitalists, demonstrators and consumers, each battling to control the fate of Okja...while all Mija wants to do is bring her friend home. Deftly blending genres, humor, poignancy and drama, Bong Joon Ho (Snowpiercer, The Host) begins with the gentlest of premises-the bond between man and animal-and ultimately creates a distinct and layered vision of the world that addresses the animal inside us all. Okja is a Plan B Entertainment, Lewis Pictures and Kate Street Picture Company production in association with Netflix.
I don't know what to say, I've just finished watching the movie. It's not a sophisticated or a sci-fi, it's not just entertaining, its genera can't be clearly categorized for me, and it's unimportant I guess. Although there are many exaggerating scenes which occur exactly when you don't expect, but they don't seem unreal to you (at least to me). The roller-coaster of feelings and mood is uncomfortable at first, till you get the unique ambiance of this picture. I've been always feel for animals and have a pet almost all my life, right now my cat is my daughter (not like my daughter) she is my daughter, and doesn't matter cat, dog, bird ... But meanwhile I've been eating meat all my life, can't leave without it. Don't know what is it about "Okja", but I cried like never before. Since I hate saying something that I can't keep, I'm not going to say I'm a vegetarian from this moment. But I say I am really in trouble and will seriously think it over. We, without a doubt, are the worst creatures that have walked on this planet, and we are getting poor on any given aspect... I can't imagine this planet in 100 years from now, but I'm glad that I won't be seeing that picture.
Okja is just a great film in all aspects of writing,directing and casting. It will keep you interested throughout the entire film and in the end you will be satisfied with your movie choice. The characters are great the comedy moments are great and the acting is amazing. Okja in general is great
Okja is fun, if sometimes over-egged, as an adventure romp, but flounders in overstatement when it comes to satirical intent.